Rick Hasen

"Trump Had Unusual Call With F.B.I. Agents After Election Center Search" #ELB NYT: By any measure, the F.B.I.’s search of an election center in Fulton County, Ga., last week was extraordinary. Agents seized truckloads of 2020 ballots, as President Trump harnessed the levers of ...

“Trump Had Unusual Call With F.B.I. Agents After Election Center Search” electionlawblog.org?p=154099

If you’re a tenured con law prof interested in election law, Ga State is looking for you to join @anthonymkreis.bsky.social, @andrewwillinger.bsky.social, Neil Kinkopf and me. Exciting new Con Law/Democracy Center opening soon! Here’s the Ad: nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

"Why the Wait? Preprocessing, Mail Ballot Usage, and Vote Reporting Dynamics in the 2020 and 2024 Elections" #ELB Sina Shaikh and Charles Stewart have posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Public debates about ‘found’ ballots, partisan blue shifts, and election-night counting speed presume that electio...

“Why the Wait? Preprocessing, Mail Ballot Usage, and Vote Reporting Dynamics in the 2020 and 2024 Elections” electionlawblog.org?p=154095

"The Dismantling of Civil Rights Protections and Thoughts on Rebuilding" #ELB Sam Bagenstos and Ellen Katz have posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Over a few months in 2025, the second Trump Administration dismantled the infrastructure for federal civil rights enf...

“The Dismantling of Civil Rights Protections and Thoughts on Rebuilding” electionlawblog.org?p=154097

"How the Supreme Court Secretly Made Itself Even More Secretive" #ELB Jodi Kantor for the NYT: In November of 2024, two weeks after voters returned President Donald Trump to office, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. summoned employees of the U.S. Supreme Court for an un...

“How the Supreme Court Secretly Made Itself Even More Secretive” electionlawblog.org?p=154093

David French: “This is Not a Drill” #ELB French in the NYT: It’s only February, and the November elections are already in peril. When I think back to the days and weeks before Jan. 6, 2021, one thing that’s clear is that many of us suffered ...

David French: “This is Not a Drill” electionlawblog.org?p=154083

NYT Editorial: “Trump Could Interfere with the Midterms. You Can Help Defend Them” #ELB NYT editorial: To look at this pattern and conclude that the 2026 midterm elections are safe is to leave American democracy exposed. In a divided country where many elections are close and congression...

NYT Editorial: “Trump Could Interfere with the Midterms. You Can Help Defend Them” electionlawblog.org?p=154085

NYT Editorial: “Trump Could Interfere with the Midterms. You Can Help Defend Them” #ELB NYT editorial: To look at this pattern and conclude that the 2026 midterm elections are safe is to leave American democracy exposed. In a divided country where many elections are close and congression...

NYT Editorial: “Trump Could Interfere with the Midterms. You Can Help Defend Them” electionlawblog.org?p=154085

“After a busy week of election news, Trump Cabinet officials ghost election officials at conference” #ELB Votebeat: What a week of election news, huh?  Attorney General Pam Bondi set off a furor when she appeared to link the aggressive immigration enforcement efforts in Minnesota to the state’s refusal to...

“After a busy week of election news, Trump Cabinet officials ghost election officials at conference” electionlawblog.org?p=154087

”The Richest 2026 Players: A.I., Crypto, Pro-Israel Groups and Trump” #ELB NYT: If money talks, don’t mess with the A.I. industry, the crypto industry, the pro-Israel lobby or President Trump’s super PAC. Those four interests are set to be the wild cards of the 2026 midterm ...

”The Richest 2026 Players: A.I., Crypto, Pro-Israel Groups and Trump” electionlawblog.org?p=154089

”Lame duck no more? Trump stockpiles hundreds of millions ahead of midterms.” #ELB Politico: Donald Trump’s political war chest grew dramatically in the second half of 2025, according to new campaign finance disclosures submitted late Saturday, giving him an unprecedented amount of ...

”Lame duck no more? Trump stockpiles hundreds of millions ahead of midterms.” electionlawblog.org?p=154091

It is going to take years---years!---to rebuild the United States Department of Justice after Trump is gone from office. A jewel of the justice system has been emptied out of institutional knowledge and wisdom.

"Democrats to shake up primary map, as 12 states vie to be among the first" #ELB WaPo: A powerful Democratic committee that will determine which states hold the party’s first nominating contests in the 2028 presidential race voted Saturday to advance 12 states that had applied to ...

“Democrats to shake up primary map, as 12 states vie to be among the first” electionlawblog.org?p=154079

"'There’s something bigger going on': State election chiefs rebuff Trump bid to seize voter rolls" #ELB Politico: Democratic state election officials say the Justice Department’s letter to Minnesota over its voter rolls represents a significant escalation, with several warning that the Trump administrat...

“‘There’s something bigger going on’: State election chiefs rebuff Trump bid to seize voter rolls” electionlawblog.org?p=154081

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour FBI raid of election offices ignites debate over voting security and federal authority

Watch My Appearance on the PBS News Hour, Discussing: “FBI raid of election offices ignites debate over voting security and federal authority” @pbsnews.org
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFCd...

Good catch!

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour FBI raid of election offices ignites debate over voting security and federal authority

Watch My Appearance on the PBS News Hour, Discussing: “FBI raid of election offices ignites debate over voting security and federal authority” @pbsnews.org
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFCd...

reason.com/volokh/2026/...

Twenty Years of Justice Alito | Aaron L. Nielson The nation is lucky to have Justice Alito.

www.civitasoutlook.com/research/twe...

Federal District Court Strikes Down Some Parts of President Trump's Executive Order on Voting, Including One Requiring Federal Voter Registration Forms to Require Documentary Proof of Citizenship #ELB Read the full memorandum opinion. Some claims were dismissed on standing or other grounds. Other issues will have to go to trial.

Federal District Court Strikes Down Some Parts of President Trump’s Executive Order on Voting, Including One Requiring Federal Voter Registration Forms to Require Documentary Proof of Citizenship electionlawblog.org?p=154068

Now: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis” in Minneapolis

Exclusive | Spy Chief Tulsi Gabbard Is Hunting for 2020 Election Fraud The director of national intelligence earlier this week joined the FBI search of an election center in Georgia.

The @wsj.com reported that Gabbard, despite having a foreign intelligence portfolio, has become Trump's point person on his bogus election fraud claims. There were skeptics of the FBI raid on both sides of the aisle at NASS, so maybe she chickened out.

www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

So Tulsi Gabbard was supposed to speak today at the annual gathering of NASS (National Association of Secretaries of State). She backed out at the last minute, citing scheduling conflcts.

Gabbard, who is the Director of National Intelligence, was mysteriously present at the at the FBI raid in Ga.

Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.

Briefing Now Complete in California Prop 50 Case Before the U.S. Supreme Court; A Ruling on Republicans' Request to Put Prop 50 Maps on Hold for 2026 Could Come Any Time #ELB Petitioners’ reply brief is here. Disclosure: I filed this amicus brief in the case, which Petitioners mention beginning on page 1 of their brief.

Briefing Now Complete in California Prop 50 Case Before the U.S. Supreme Court; A Ruling on Republicans’ Request to Put Prop 50 Maps on Hold for 2026 Could Come Any Time electionlawblog.org?p=154066

"Atlanta FBI boss ousted after balking at 2020 election probe" #ELB MS NOW: The special agent in charge of the FBI’s Atlanta field office was forced out this month after questioning the Justice Department’s renewed push to probe Fulton County’s role in the 2020 electi...

“Atlanta FBI boss ousted after balking at 2020 election probe” electionlawblog.org?p=154064

Atlanta FBI boss ousted after balking at 2020 election probe Special Agent in Charge Paul Brown refused to execute search warrants over Trump’s long-running fraud claims, sources tell MS NOW.

Breaking:

The special agent in charge of the FBI's Atlanta field office was forced out this month after questioning the Trump Justice Department's renewed push to probe Fulton County's role in the 2020 election, two people familiar with the matter told MS NOW. www.ms.now/news/atlanta...

Why now are we being flooded with all these, "actually Justice Alito is nice and kind" stories?

"Missouri Attorney General Hanaway Files Suit Against U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau To Cease Counting Illegal Aliens, Requests Census Recount" #ELB You can find Missouri’s AG’s press release here. The complaint is here. This is yet another attempt to exclude undocumented immigrants from the decennial apportionment. The first Trump administration ...

Missouri has filed a lawsuit seeking to exclude undocumented immigrants from the 2030 Census and apportionment. Remarkably, Missouri is also seeking a "redo" of the 2020 enumeration "if necessary." No idea how that would even be possible at this stage.

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Jeff Wice: "New York’s ongoing redistricting fight" #ELB NYDN oped: Mid-decade congressional redistricting took another twist last week; this time in New York. On Jan. 21, in the case Williams vs. New York State Board of Elections, Acting Manhattan state Su...

Jeff Wice: “New York’s ongoing redistricting fight” electionlawblog.org?p=154061